Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix t3404 assumption that `wc -l` does not use whitespace.

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > ...  It did not help that I hated the fact that that series changed 
> > the original design without even understanding it.
> 
> Care to elaborate on this point further?  I do not get it.

The original implementation of -p was modeled closely after filter-branch, 
in that it created a subdirectory (dotest/rewritten) containing the new 
commit names for those commits that were rewritten.

Now, whenever a commit was picked, the parents would be looked up in 
dotest/rewritten, and replaced with the rewritten name (or left unchanged 
if they were not rewritten).

In that manner, every commit is identified by the (original) commit name.  
<irony>Surprisingly, this is the way Git was meant to operate</irony>

Now, a mark command has been introduced which is totally unnecessary.  
Commits can _still_ be identified by their (original) commit name.  That's 
the whole assumption rebase -i relies on.

Basically, the output of rebase -i -p is ugly now, because you have _two_ 
ways of specifying things, and frankly, I would have to read documentation 
to find out when to use what.  And I maintain that this was not necessary 
with the old way rebase -i operated.

So I am really unhappy that this patch series made it in, and I am even 
more unhappy that my suggestions (which I made, in spite of moving between 
two countries, and in spite of spending a lot of time with someone very 
special, and therefore having less time for Git than I would have liked 
to) were blatantly ignored.

It would have been easier for me if I would not be so utterly convinced 
that the "new" way is so much more complicated and unintuitive than what I 
suggested.

And now it is already in "next", which does not help me at all (me being 
very busy at the moment to find a job).  I am also slightly uneasy about 
the fact that a few obvious mistakes had to be fixed in the last days.

Formulations such as "deliberately leaves $DOTEST directory behind if 
clean-up fails" make me wonder, too: I sincerely hope that I misunderstand 
the intention of this message.

I have the feeling that I have to repeat my point again, so that it is not 
ignored -- again.  Maybe an example would help:

-- snip --
pick abcdefg This is the first commit to be picked
reset cdefghij
pick zyxwvux A commit in a side-branch
merge recursive abcdefg
-- snap --

I am convinced that this syntax does not need much explanation.

A patch implementing a syntax like this would have won my unilateral 
approval (modulo expr/tac quirks, but that would have been easy to fix).

Ciao,
Dscho who does not like complicator's gloves